Respuesta :
Answer:
61% of the time a person will wait at least 1.872 seconds before the wave crashes in.
Step-by-step explanation:
An uniform probability is a case of probability in which each outcome is equally as likely.
For this situation, we have a lower limit of the distribution that we call a and an upper limit that we call b.
The probability that we find a value X lower than x is given by the following formula.
[tex]P(X \leq x) = \frac{x - a}{b-a}[/tex]
Uniform distribution from 0 to 4.8 seconds.
This means that [tex]a = 0, b = 4.8[/tex]
61% of the time a person will wait at least how long before the wave crashes in?
This is the 100 - 61 = 39% percentile, which is x for which [tex]P(X \leq x) = 0.39[/tex]. So
[tex]P(X \leq x) = \frac{x - a}{b-a}[/tex]
[tex]0.39 = \frac{x - 0}{4.8 - 0}[/tex]
[tex]x = 4.8*0.39[/tex]
[tex]x = 1.872[/tex]
61% of the time a person will wait at least 1.872 seconds before the wave crashes in.
